Leviticus 23:21

And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

In Context

20And when the priest hath lifted them up with the leaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.

22And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain; but you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:16The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.

Leviticus 23:2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

Leviticus 23:7The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein:

Leviticus 23:31You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.

Deuteronomy 16:11And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:16-23

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord . 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord . 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven… Read the whole commentary →

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